The Signaling of Continuative and Contrastive Discourse Relations in English Argumentative Discourse: Corpus-Based and Experimental Perspectives

This paper examines the linguistic realization of continuative and contrastive discourse relations (DRs) in English argumentative discourse, focusing on both as product process. Based a corpus 25 texts with corresponding experimental data stemming from an editing-based task, this study aims to answer questions (i) how DRs are linguistically realized (i.e., encoded coherence strands or additionally signaled) (ii) their signaling unfolds during real-time process editing. The quantitative analysis edited shows that signaled throughout (e.g., through connectives), whereas more frequently only. In addition, qualitative keystroke logging metadata) reveals while is made manifest right start editing across data, tend be only at later stage. can explained by semantic overlap between different types DRs, which requires participants (re-)negotiate exact nature (and thus appropriate signal) particular DR than clearly interpreted readily throughout.